John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [audio]

I was excited to see this, but I found that the interviewer spent too much time talking. I got too frustrated and stopped listening. I want to hear what Cook has to say, and the interviewer is only there to facilitate that.

I'd encourage the interviewer to go back over the audio, and measure the amount of time he's talking vs. the amount of time that John Cook is talking. If it's greater than 20% or so, then that's a problem.

I enjoyed that. I have been reading John's social media posts for a while, and it was good to hear him talk about his business. I also liked the interviewer's style for running the podcast.

I heard only parts of the podcast, what I believe he said: His best tool is emacs, travels about every three months, emphasizes the importance of marketing, get many clients from reading his blog, he doesn't like to be payed with equity, a big program is the refrigerator is always at hand. I didn't hear anything about a concrete project, perhaps because of NDAs, and if you are curious the interviewer/podcaster likes to travel and traves all around the world.

If you actually want people to subscribe to your podcast and listen to it, you need to give them what they need to do that. Put the words "RSS" or "feed" on the page with a link to the feed. Don't make me view the page source to find it, which is what I had to do.

https://rare-technologies.com/comments/feed/

Thanks!

I'll give this a listen on the commute to work next week.

I liked his blog, but I hope this isn't a precedent that will be followed. I have precious little time to read posts in my goodreader backlog. Podcasts, in addition to being terrible most of the time, are sucky unless they provide a transcript, and even then it would be 100x better if they dug more than 1mm deeply than the headline.

thanks for this